Does BitTorrent/uTorrent ruin your computer?

[finbarq@sbcglobalenet]

i have a IBM Thinkpad and i want to download free music, will thi sslow down/ruin my compmuter?

[johnai3]

Only way of ruining your computer is from downloading virus's on some torrents. The actual torrent program wouldn't slow your computer down... it all depends on your torrent client

[thepwrofcheese15]

uTorrent will not take up much space or slow down your computer. It will, however, take up a lot of bandwidth and slow your internet when you have it running, as it will automatically upload and uploading will make your internet run very slowly.

You can set a upload speed cap in order to lessen the amount it will slow your internet down by, or you can simply close it out when you are not downloading something and want to use the internet.

In short, it will not harm your computer unless you download something malicious, and it will only slow your internet down so long as it is running with the upload not capped.

[jackespade]

theres nothign illegal about utorrent you dumbass. yahoo should kick you morons out. the only reason your a top contrib is because your too stupid to know when your wrong, so you post on everything

because of the high number of connections created by torrent clients they CAN lock up your router, thats a pain in the ass but it only happens to older routers. aside from that your good

[Fernando]

that's illegal.
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